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A Research and Development Center for PITAYA (Dragon Fruit)
Pitaya, origin and native from South America, is a popular fruit over there. It has
About Pitaya
been brought by Holland and France into Asia. Now, the main cultivate are in
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Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan.
Species
Climate & Soil It is a nutritional fruit. Nowadays, the Pitaya has been cultivated on a large scale
Seeding in Malaysia as well as in other country.
Growing State
Flowering Normally we catteries the Pitaya into three type.
Fruiting & Harvest
1. White Flesh, Red Outlook (Picture), Hylocereus Undatus, family of
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Cetaceae
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How the Pitaya look like? Visit our web, and you will get the better
understanding of this wonderful plant.
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Marketing Usually, The Pitaya is grown in the tropical lowlands. It is a tropical fruit. It can
FAQ be grown with organic fertilizer, and without any pesticide and chemical.
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The fruit is juicy, with a subtle fruity flavors. Red Pitaya is pleasant to eat and
when sliced the fruit is especially attractive.
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A Research and Development Center for PITAYA
(Dragon Fruit)
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PRODUCTS SERVICES INFORMATION TECHNIQUE
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About Pitaya Our Products are: (Sales Team)
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Climate and Soil 1. Pitaya RED WINE.
Seeding/Cutting KLUANG is a name of the original harvest town in Johor state, Malaysia.
Growing State
Flowering
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Investor KLUANG Red Pitaya Wine has been develop by our research team and under full
Marketing production since 2003. This blended wine is light ruby red with lovely tropical fruit
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2. Pitaya Seeds, Cuttings, and Plants.
We do have varies clones in cuttings and plants. We also sell seeds to the international
customer.
For information, please email sales@ilovepitaya.com
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A Research and Development Center for PITAYA (Dragon Fruit)
About Pitaya
Products
Species & Family
Climate and Soil
Seeding/Cutting Tree can be used as support, Water supplied system are One of four plants can be
Growing State let cactus to train the set around the growing used for each post
Flowering branches. state. depending on its size.
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Pets & Diseases Wooden posts can also be Some of useless flowers or Thick mulch placed on the
support. plants grown up the post, it mound, away from
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should be removed. steaming, will slow the
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water loss rate.
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of 1-3 meters or more.
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A Research and Development Center for PITAYA (Dragon Fruit)
About Pitaya The flowers of dragon fruits name as " moonflower", "Queen of the night". It is a
Products night blooming flower. The flower is large with waxy and white petals. It can
Species & Family produce fragrance as it blooms, attracting bees and ants as pollinating agents.
Climate and Soil
Seeding/Cutting
Growing State
Flowering
Fruiting and Harvest
A lot of home growers unable to get flowering and fruiting a long as two years or
above. Even some of them are able to manage some flowering, but the flower drop
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after blooming.
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Fertilizing There are few factors play the roles in terms of flowering and fruit setting:
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Culinary Use A) In order to increase the yield, growers should keep in mind that this plant do not
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1:2:3.
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B) Other vitamin like TE (trace elements) also play a very important part in
flowering and fruiting. With right supply of fertilizer, we found that we can get up to
18 season of flowering and fruiting year around.
C) Pollination
Even Pitaya is a self pollination plants. However if there are pollination agents like
bees, ants and others help during the pollination process, the success rates will
increase. Result shows that with hand pollination (human help), the fruit set rate
increase tremendously with fruit sizes increase too.
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A Research and Development Center for PITAYA (Dragon Fruit)
About Pitaya The fruit maturity is 40-45 days from the flower bulb, or 30 to 35 days from the flower
Products bloomed. When the fruit skin begin turning from green into RED, it is about ready for
Species & Family picking.
Climate and Soil
Seeding/Cutting In Malaysia, fruiting season are year around. However during the raining season, the
harvest could reduce from 30% to 50%.
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Flowering
For Export, we pick the fruit second day after dragon fruit skin turning into Red.
Fruiting and Harvest However for home grower, it is better to pick the fruit 4 to 5 days after the fruit skin
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Fertilizing OUR GRADING STANDARD FOR RED FRESH DRAGON FRUIT.
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No. GRADE gm SUB GRADE gm
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1. XL Above 600 XXL Above 600
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XL 526 – 600
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L 451 – 525
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MS 301 – 375
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S 251 – 300
4. S 200 - 300
SS 200 – 250
5. R Below 200
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Sweetness of a fruit is one of the debating issues in fruit farming. Normally we mean sweet
is on a measurement of Sucrose (C12H22O11), which is a combined molecule of 1 glucose and
1 fructose. However on analysis of Dragon Fruit (Pitaya), it does not contain of sucrose.
Sugar Refractometer measure the refractive index (RI) as we call it sugar content or BRIX.
As our measurement on Dragon Fruit, we normally get the BRIX of 12 to 19.
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Antioxidant activity (ORAC) and total phenolic for selected tropical fruits.
The Pitaya is the ideal choice for our daily health requirements.
Fruit Quality:
People are using BRIX Refractometer to determined the sweetness and therefore
the quality of a fruit. However refractometer is not always accurate. Some links
below should be useful if reader want to pursue it.
1.http://www.plantsfood.com/brixvalue.htm
2.http://www.pikeagri.com/tissue.html
3.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BrixTalk/
Damage on Harvest and Cactus
7.Mix In Pizza
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Species & Family
Climate and Soil Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute
Seeding/Cutting (MARDI)
Growing State
MARDI is a statutory body and undertakes research and development (R&D) in food
Flowering and tropical agriculture.
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Nutrition Fact Kementerian Pertanian Dan Industri Asas Tani
Storage & QC Ministry of Agriculture (MOA)
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Pets & Diseases Responsible for improving the incomes of farmers, livestock breeders and fisherman
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International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet)
Independent, not-for-profit international organization established by the member
countries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO)
to promote the production, consumption, processing, marketing and international
trade of tropical and subtropical fruits.
FAMA
http://famaexchange.org
MATRADE
http://www.matrade.gov.my
MITI
http://www.miti.gov.my
SMIDEC
http://www.smidec.gov.my